PAINTING STRATEGIES: PROCESS AND CONTENT

Catalog description

This course focuses on conceptual prompts relative to contemporary issues to encourage a variety of processes and material approaches to making paintings. Students continue the idea of building a painting through the iterative process of making, analyzing, and editing their work throughout the semester. The painting is a live surface, a place to collect and record information, and this course insists that students consider a wide range of formal and conceptual choices to best address content. Each project will be initiated with rigorous research and further supported by exposure to visual examples of historic and contemporary painting, readings, written responses, seminar-style discussions, and numerous critiques of both in-progress and finished work.